Holder for dipping devices



F. SCHIMM EL HOLDER FOR DIPPING DEVICES Filed Oct. 15, 1927 Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

UNITED STATES FRIDOLIN SCHIMMEL, OF FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA.

HOLDER FOR DIPPING DEVICES.

Application filed October 15, 1927. Serial No. 226,409.

My present invention provides an improved holder for dipping apparatus, and more especially for dipping apparatus of the character disclosed in my pending application Serial N 0. 183,346 filed April 13, 1927 and entitled Apparatus for dipping table legs and other objects in finishing liquids.

The improved holder is especially designed for detachably holding table legs or like turned wooden objects, and in the drawings I have illustrated the same as applied in connection with a dipping apparatus such as disclosed in my prior application above identified, some of the main elements only of said dipping apparatus being shown.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters inclicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view partly in front elevation and partly in vertical section with some parts broken away showing several of the improved holders in their preferred form applied to the apparatus indicated;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary front elevation with some parts broken away, showing one of the holders and a portion of one of said holders, a part of the bar to which it is secured, and a portion of one of the legs held thereby;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2

Fig. 4 is an elevation showing a portion of one of the holders, a portion of one of the table legs, and a hammer of novel construction applied for use to disconnect the leg from the holder;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 4, some parts being sectioned;

Fig. is a front elevation showing a modified form of holder;

Fig. 7 is a section taken on the line 77 of Fig. 6; and

Fig. 8 is a sect-ion taken on the line 88 of Fig. 2.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the parts of the apparatus that correspond to the parts in my prior application are indicated by like numerals, and briefly described as follows:

The numeral 13 indicates a tank which contains a liquid finishing material 00, and has laterally extended oblique drip boards 40 and upstanding guide rails 31. A cross head 29 moves vertically on the rails 31 and detachably supports any one of a plurality of cross bars 17.

In accordance with my present invention, in lieu of grapple-acting holders, I employ sharp pointed rods that are adapted to be driven frictionally and slightly into the ends of the wooden table legs. Usually the table legs, indicated in the drawings by y, are formed with axial center pin holes into which the pointed ends of the grapple rods are adapted to be inserted and then slightly driven into the legs. These leg-holding rods (1, at their lower ends, are tapered to sharp points and are preferably made nearly conical but deviate slightly from true form substantially shown in the drawings. It is found that this form of pointed end will better hold in the wood than a truly conical end.

In the preferred and best form of holder, as best shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the rods a, near their upper ends, are reduced to form a neck portion a with upper and lower shoulders. The upper portions of the rods work in vertical grooves 6 formed. in cast metal clips I) so that said rods are held against lateral swaying movements. The cast metal clips 6 are secured to the bar 17 by screws 12 or the like. The vertical grooves b in the clips I) are closed at their upper inner surfaces by the bar 17 when said metal clips are secured thereto and hence the rods a are held in said groove 6 for true vertical movements. The horizontal upper flanges of the clips I) overlap the upper portions of the bars 17 and are formed with notches b that are wide enough to embrace the stem a between its upper and lower shoulders but are not wide enough to allow the body of the rod to pass therethrough. The stem 41 is much longer than the thickness of the upper flange of said clip and hence the rod is normally held as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 but is free for a certain vertical movement, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

hen a leg is to be secured to the pointed end of the rod the leg will be pressed against the sharp lower end a of the rod and the rod will be forced upward to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 and then, by the use of a hammer or the like, the rod may be tapped on its upper end and driven sufliciently into the leg to cause the proper frictional holding engagement between the rod and the leg. It will be here noted that the purpose of the limited vertical movement of the rod above indicated is to permit the driving movement of the rod into the leg without resistance from the clip or bar and without transmitting the pounding jars either to the clip or to the rod. Of course, when the leg is suspended by a rod, the rod will hang in the position shown in Fig. 2, and by full lines in Fig. 3.

In practice it is highly important that the finished outer portions of the legs are not defaced by any pounding or hammering acton required to disconnect the finished leg from the holder, and for this purpose I have designed the hammer shown in Figs. 4 and 5. This hammer may be a cast metal hammer comprising .a handle 0, a rod-driving head 0 and a leg-engaging head 0 which latter is bifurcated or formed with a groove 0 so that the leg-engaging head of the hammer will straddle the rod and be engaged only with that portion of the end of the leg that is around the rod.

Figs. 6' and 7 illustrate a modified form of the holding rod in which a rod d has a pointed lower end (l and at its upper end an eye The eyes (Z of the holders (5 are adapted to be detachably engaged with L- shaped hooks f on the bar 17.

lVhat- I claim is:

1. In a device of the kind described, the combination with a bar, of a clip secured to said bar, a vertical groove in said clip, a

holding rod seated in said groove and provided with a pointed lower end adapted to be driven into a table leg or the like, said rod near its upper end having a reduced neck portion, said clip having a notched upper end that embraces the neck of said rod and limits the vertical movement thereof, said rod being held for true vertical movements and having its upper end projecting above said clip where it may be readily struck with a hammer or the like.

2. In a device of the kind described, the combination with a bar, of a clip secured to the bar and having a notched upper end, and a. holding rod having near its upper end a reduced neck portion that is embraced by the notched upper end of the clip which supports said rod for a limited vertical movement,said rod having a pointed lower end adapted to be driven into a table'leg or the like.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature.

FRIDOLIN SCHIMMEL. 

